Month: May 2017

I’ve already written three earlier posts about Norman Fischer’s Lojong book. Lojong is a set of 59 slogans used as “basic training” in Tibetan Buddhism, and Fischer wrote a commentary on it from a “Zen” point of view. He used to be the abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center. I’m trying to explain the…

I’m going through Jamgon Kongtrul and Norman Fischer’s guides to Lojong at the same time, to illustrate my religious disagreements with the group I guess you could call “the people who thought Steve Jobs exemplified Zen.” Earlier posts in the series are here and here. The Root Text of the Seven Points of Training the…